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Summer 2006 REU Project Descriptions

Please download the final presentations for pictures and details about the projects!

Mica Creek Experimental Watershed

Student: Lin Gray
Mentor:
Kathleen Kavanagh, Department of Forest Resources
Project:
Forest Canopy Transpiration
Final Presentation

Student: Rhonda Ghilarducci
Mentor:
John D. Marshall, Department of Forest Resources
Project:
Net Primary Productivity of an Instrumented Forest in Northern Idaho
Final Presentation

Student: Matt Mason
Mentor:
Jeff Braatne, Department of Forest Resources
Project:
A Landscape Perspective of Stream Food Webs: Exploring Cumulative Effects and Defining Biotic Thresholds
Final Presentation

Paradise Creek Watershed

Student: Christina Dodson
Mentor:
Fritz R. Fiedler, Department of Civil Engineering
Project:
Quantitative Water Resources Sustainability at the Watershed Scale
Final Presentation

Student: Sarah Foster
Mentor: J
an Boll, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Project:
A Program in Hydrology and Water Quality to Support and Evaluate Watershed Restoration
Final Presentation

Student: Alexis Thompson
Mentor:
J.D. Wulfhorst, Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Sociology
Project:
Comparative Assessment of Socioeconomic Factors for Resident and Agricultural Operator Decision-Making Leading to Watershed Conservation
Final Presentation

Elwha Watershed

Student: Heather Gowton
Mentor:
Christopher Peery, Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources
Project:
Restoration of the Elwha Watershed Following Removal of Two Hydroelectric Dams
Final Presentation

Student: Rachel Kaminski
Mentors:
Stephanie E. Hampton, Brain Kennedy, University of Idaho, Department of Fish & Wildlife Resources
Project:
Shoreline development effects on large deep lakes, Lake Crescent, Olympic National Park
Final Presentation

Fundamental Research

Student: Kristina Beaulieu
Mentor:
Barbara C. Williams, Biological and Agricultural Engineering
Project:
Idaho Grand Challenge Initiative - Part 5, Aqueous Environmental Nanosensors
Final Presentation

Student: Tenzin Lhundup
Mentor:
Markus Tuller, Soil & Land Resources Division
Project:
Advanced Design of Bentonite Caps and Barriers
Final Presentation

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